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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Amir nervous about, in terms of joining his law firm as partner?
(a) The partners are mostly Jewish.
(b) He came from a much more prestigious background than most of the other partners.
(c) The partners have much more experience than he does.
(d) The partners came from much more prestigious law firms than he did.

2. Where does Abe say Amir was born?
(a) In a refugee camp.
(b) In India.
(c) In the U.S.
(d) In Pakistan.

3. How does Akhtar characterize Emily?
(a) Voluptuous.
(b) Lithe.
(c) Chaste.
(d) Thin.

4. Which western artist does Emily point to as someone whose work was influenced by Islamic art?
(a) Matisse.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Cezanne.
(d) Klimt.

5. Where does Amir’s sister, Abe’s mother, live?
(a) London.
(b) India.
(c) Paris.
(d) Pakistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the playwright characterize Isaac’s looking around while Emily is getting him coffee in Scene Two?

2. How does Amir say his mother would react, if she knew his name was going to be on his law firm?

3. What was it about the incident with the waiter that made Emily think of the Velázquez painting?

4. What did Amir’s mother promise to do if Amir brought Rivkah to their home?

5. What does the painting over the mantel piece represent?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do we learn about Amir’s career when the phone rings, interrupting the painting session?

2. What does Amir think his mother would feel about him making partner?

3. As seen in Scene 2, what is Isaac’s importance to Emily?

4. How does Emily appropriate Islamic art?

5. How does Abe’s arrival tell us about how Amir’s career developed?

6. What was the imam Abe is talking about arrested for?

7. How has Amir’s religious career developed over the course of his life, according to Abe?

8. What is the juxtaposition we se, in the phone calls Amir takes, back-to-back, while Emily is painting him?

9. What contradiction does Amir identify in Emily’s feelings about him and his responsibilities?

10. What does Emily mean when she invokes Goldman Sachs in the discussion about the imam?

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